Roger Clemens

by Patrick Ross


Within the past few weeks, the world has learned yet another thing about Roger Clemens that we really should not care about. It has been reported that Roger and country star Mindy McCready were involved in a decade long relationship that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer. At that time Clemens was a 28 year old ace pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, with a wife and two children. Clearly this is extremely immoral, but nothing has been completely proven yet. Rusty Hardin, Clemens' lawyer, claims that they were friends and still are, but that it was never sexual. The daily news received this information from an anonymous source, which means it cannot be said to be a fact. His lawyer says Roger's wife knew that they were friends, and that it never once turned inappropriate. But, Roger did apparently send cash to McCready to help her with legal issues and reached out to her when she was in jail last year in Tennessee. This causes it to seem very suspicious. All of this is very alarming and questionable, however it has nothing to do with his baseball career or ongoing defamation suit the former pitcher has filed against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee.
If the allegation is true, Clemens will be publicly embarrassed in front of the world. This is a situation that is slightly disturbing, since she was only 15 years old at the supposed start of the relationship, while he was 28. Clearly it is wrong, but it is straight up none of our business. There is absolutely no reason for this to have been released other than the fact to humiliate Roger Clemens. The people who leaked this story are going way beyond their own limits. They definitely should have told Roger's family, because his wife has the right to know, but not the entire world. Also, it now puts Roger in a hole for his case against Brian McNamee because they will use this to question his credibility and attempt to say that he is a liar. This is why Roger Clemens should now be afraid what is to come in his defamation suit.
Personally I think it’s down right gross and messed up that Roger would have any sexual feelings toward a 15 year old girl, possibly in her first years of high school, while he was almost 30. If the statue of limitations was not exceeded, he could be charged with rape and instead of his tag as a CY Young legendary pitcher, he would be called a pedophile. I believe nobody in the world should care about Roger’s personal life, for the exception of his wife, friends, and family. The bottom line though is Roger screwed up once again, and he himself is going to pay for it. He looks like a liar and fraud, and what was it all for; a little girl and a faster pitch.